Today is Record Your Cat Purring Day, so you can play the recording on his birthday after he’s gone.

National Sing in Your Car Day.

1492: In history’s first written reference to a new discovery, Christopher Columbus made notes in his journal about the use by New World Indians of tobacco.

2006 O.J. Simpson causes an uproar with plans for a TV interview and book titled “If I Did It,” in which Simpson describes how he would have committed the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. The project was scrapped after an outcry condemning it as revolting and exploitive.

1969 A female singer was arrested in Tampa, Florida, on charges of using “vulgar and indecent language” at a concert. It was a woman but she was no lady -The charges eventually were dropped. It was Janis Joplin.